There are alot of questions about starting off marketing your website, so i have decided to make this post where everyone can post there ideas and what they know works in marketing your website. Keywords Keywords are what is searched in the search engine, if you have good keywords you will be found easier on search engines such as google. If someone searches "Webmaster Forum" and your meta tags include Webmaster Forum and the content on your website has the words "webmaster forum", your website will be found easier when the term "webmaster forum" is searched in a search engine such as Google. Here is a free keyword tool i have found: www.freekeywords.wordtracker.com Blogging and Pinging Blogs are where you post information, known as "articles", Blogs are found very easily in search engines. Blogs get high search engine rankings easily and keywords help get even higher rankings, if you offer good quality information, you will keep getting repeat visitors. Blogger.com is a free and easy to use blogging tool: www.blogger.com Wordpress.com is a free blog, with lads of addable plug ins, you need a domain name to use this: www.wordpress.org I reccomend using the sare it plugin with this as if your content is good readers will send it to friends. RSS Feeds such as www.feedburner.com allow you to get your blog found even easier and have soem cool features. Pinging www.pingomatic.com allows you to tell search engines your blog has been updated within minutes. Squidoo, Digg It, Myspace etc... Once again these get easy search engine rankings, it takes around an hour to get one sorted but then it's a matter of just copying and pasting it onto each one. www.squidoo.com www.myspace.com www.facebook.com Digg it etc... Submitting Articles Submitting articles to a place where they are read is an easy way to pick up traffic from high ranking well visited websites. I am still experimenting with this. Posting on Blogs/Forums Posting on a blog/forum is an easy way to get traffic, you need to make it a genuine comment and not just an advertisement. Advertising on websites You can get low prices ona dvertising on websites, check out the forum here on DP for some. Advertising in Your Local Paper Most of the time you can pick up some free publicity from a newspaper, by having a genuine article that is worth there time to publish and your link at then end. Videos Videos get easily ranked, there are loads of top video sites, submitting your videos to all of them will only increase your chances of getting found. You are advertsing on there website which is searched by millions and getting high search engine rankings. So thats some of the ideas i have and i am releasing an ebook on internet marketing later this year. Also feel Free to visit my hosting website www.hostingcroc.com, we are cheap, English/USA support and get you set up with in 24 hours. Example Template: Submit Ideas/What You Know Works Title of Idea: e.g. Blogging Description: Description of it How it Works: Explanation of why and how this method works Reccomendations: e.g. software to use, place to post etc... Your Forum Username This is for submitting Your Ideas, Feel Free to Say Thank You to Posters But Do Not Spam, Ways to Market Your Website or 1 Thank You, Anyone Breaking Those Rules Will Be Repoted as i want this to be easy for people to find tips.
I did this in 5 minutes will definately write an e-book on this going into more detail and telling a few more of my tricks, ill sell it off cheap